Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-05-21

EE-COuuty Treasurer Smith of Lcng
Island was in town the early part II
the week.
Capt. Polling was confined 10 his
house about 3 week from sickness. He
is able TO be out now.
E. F. KOrns Of this paper. moved to
his farm in Arcade Township last
Thursday
NJ. Y. Watson, of Minneapolis, has
rented an Office OF j q. Gebhart and
viii open mp Q loan Office soon.
Hon. John Bissen ez-Register of the
Kirwin Land Office was in town last
Saturday handshaking with has old
friends.
Editor Ford Of the Marvin Monitor
was a social caller last Saturday, He
is working hard to give the people of
Marvin good paper.
Judge and Mrs. Spaulding and Mrs
j. X. Morse, were visiting the family
OF Austin Spaulding, near KirWin, the
middle of the week.
Miss Cora Shackleford. Of Logan, has
engaged as copying CLERK in S. j. Hart
mans Office. Miss Jessie Hartman has
a desk also in her fathers Office.
A. e. Williby who resides south of
Marvin and who is q good friend of the
HERALD was a caller last Saturday.
He says crop prospects are excellent in
his locality.
Viola Fisher, OF DOrIestOwn, Ohio, is
visiting her brother and sister, S. S.
Fisher and Mrs. Or. Wallace, Of this
place. and viii probably spend the
summer here.
Mrs. o. W. Bickford and daughter
Alice, of this place, will start next
Monday for Vermont to spend the sum-
mer among the mountains there for the
benefit OF Miss Affects health.
j. NJ. Covert, representing that ex-
cellent paper the LeaVenwOrth Times
was in town on Tuesday in the interest
Of his paper. He says there is now
considerable talk in the eastern part of
the State about Philipsburg.
II. A. Wells, who for ten years was
a resident Of Phillipsburg but who has
resided five years IN Oregon, was here
visiting relatives this week. He has
left for California and will take up his
permanent residence either in Cali
fornia or Oregon.
Rev. Theodore Bracken has gone to
Omaha to attend the General Assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian Church. He
expects to 90 further east before he re-
turns and viii be absent three weeks.
There viii be no preaching at his
church until after his return.
Misses Elsie Lowe and Maggie SaIIee
Of Phillipsburg took little horse back
ride Friday evening out over the prair-
lie and when they came to the cOnclu-
sion that they had gone far enough
they found themselves in Long Island.
Long Island Leader
Mr. Weed, founder of the town of
Long Island and the present owner of
the Inter-Ocean of that lively town,
was in the County Capital last Monday
and Of course came to the HERALD Of
fee to say show do" He reports
matters and things moving along en-
couragingly in the Island.
Among others who favored the HER
AID Office since our last issue was w.
@. Soule who resides near Long Island.
He came to Kansas from near Atlantic,
Iowa, five years ago and likes this
country very much better than Iowa
Mr.. SOule is a Democrat, but he says
he must have the HERALD for county
news.
Mr.. Crenshaw, of Maysville, Mo-,
who with Eugene Low aad Dr. Weth-
erby made extensive purchases of land
near Phillipsburg two weeks ago re- |
turned to this place last Tuesday and is
still in town. 1t is understood that he
or the company of which he is a mem /
Der, viii soon begin the erection of a lot |
Of tenement houses.
Thomas Dawson, of Crow, was a |
caller on Monday. He has resided /
here seventeen years. came from Wis |
cOnsin and likes Kansas so well he /
could not be induced to live elsewhere. /
He spent last summer in Colorado, but /
prefers this locality to that. He is ad- |
Vertising his fine flock of sheep for sale /
and thinks he may move to town.
w. II. Vest, one of the good farmers /
of Arcade township, favored this Office |
Monday. He informs us he has been a |
citizen of Phillips county sixteen years. /
He came here from Illinois and likes
Kansas much better than Illinois. Mr.. |
Vest says the prospects for corn are
good now. The small grain does not
promise so well. The chintz bugs are
pretty thick now but NAV do no harm.
The HERALD's good friend G. r.
Chism called on Tuesday and not only
paid a years subscription for himself,
but subscribed for the HERALD to be
sent east to q friend. Mr., Chism came
to this county from Polk county, Iowa.
six years ago and he likes Kansas bet
ter than Iowa. Notwithstanding the
wear he came heTe-l6Sl-Was very
dry year, vet he raised 400 bushels OF
corn because he kept CultiYahng It, In
1882 he raised 20 bushels of corn to the
acre and that was pretty dry year.
He saws there are this spring good
many chinch bugs flying, but he does
not anticipate any serious damage from
them. Mr.. Chism cOntemplates erect
inc a new house on his farm this sum-
mCr.
Mr.. NJ. II. Gardner q 5ucesssiul far
mer residing about nine miles south
east Of Phillipsburg, while in the 'hub'
last Saturday, came up and renewed his
subscription to the official paper. He
was born in New York, has resided in
Wisconsin, Indiana and Missouri; he
has been IN Phillips county Is years
and likes it much better than any of
the states mentioned He has never
failed TO raise a fair crop Of corn eX-
cept in 1874, when the grasshOpppers
destroyed it. He raised about 80 bush
els of corn to the acre in 1881, that
very dry year. The secrete Of his sue
cess in raising corn that year was, in
persistently cultivating it. He has IN
bounded faith in this country as farm
ing country.
Last Sunday Rev. Theodore Bracken,
of the Presbyterian church, instead of
preaching a regular sermon, recOuuted
the history of the growth of the church
in this part of Kansas. He was sent